Funny music video called "Advice to a teenager, from your mother" tells teens everything moms want them to know about sex, drugs, booze and smoking in 1 minute 45 seconds; based on new book called "13 Is the New 18..."

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January 7, 2008 (MMD Newswire) -- Are you the parent of a teenager? Do you have trouble talking to your kid about sex, drugs, drinking and smoking? Here's a funny way to get your message across, in just 1 minute 45 seconds. You just have to be brave enough to watch a new music video called "Advice to a Teenager, from your mother" with your teen by your side.

"I dare you to watch this with your kid," says the creator, Beth Harpaz. VIDEO LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR7NduwSTiY

The video delivers everything mothers want teenagers to know about sex, drugs, booze and smoking, in a humorous way, using the "Toreador" song from "Carmen." The video is based on Harpaz's new book called "13 Is the New 18 ... and other things my children taught me while I was having a nervous breakdown being their mother."

CONTACT: bethharpaz@hotmail.com
BOOK EXCERPTS: http://www.13isthenew18.com
PUBLICATION: The book "13 Is the New 18" is available Jan. 27 from Crown, a division of Random House

ABOUT THE BOOK: Beth Harpaz, who works as an editor for the AP, figures there’ll be no Generation Gap when her kids become teenagers. After all, she grew up in the ’60s and ’70s. She’s seen everything! But when her son has a bar mitzvah and turns 13, suddenly her life goes from hosting pizza parties for 12-year-olds to monitoring the MySpace page where he claims he’s 22 (even though his photo shows him standing next to Bugs Bunny at Six Flags).

She joins Facebook to spy on him, but he refuses to friend her. (No matter, she finds hundreds of friends of her own and ends up addicted to it.) She remembers being teased about her “highwater” pants as a kid, but she just can’t accept her son’s argument that without $100 sneakers, he might be bullied for having uncool shoes.

 

As she tries to decipher lyrics to rap songs and text messages with mysterious codes like NM JC, she starts wondering if she’s failed as a mother, or if all of this is just a normal part of growing up in the 21st century. When she finds some scary secrets in her son’s room and starts getting calls from school about his behavior, she’s afraid to ask the Perfect Mommies she knows for advice, so she turns to a variety of unconventional sources: the Sopranos, Erma Bombeck, and most of all, Google, her guru and oracle.     

By the time her son turns 14, he’s grown out of a lot of the things that worried her – and she’s learned a lot about raising teenagers.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: “Harpaz has an engaging voice, and her outlook on everything from teen fashion to Facebook is fresh and funny."

FOR GILLIGAN'S ISLAND FANS ONLY: The video was inspired by the episode where the castaways stage "Hamlet" using the music from "Carmen" for the "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" speech.

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